Tag: EXPLODINGBATTERY

Share Getting attention in class sometimes involves adding an enthusiastic wiggle to a raised hand, or cooing an ever so soft "ooh, ooh, me!" But, if you're after a sure-fire solution to grabbing your teacher's eye, blowing up your iPod is always an option. Such was the case, it seems, for one Massachusetts high school student, whose iPod recently exploded "spontaneously" on her desk in the ...

There's something about iPhones and Europeans. Call us suspicious, but it seems that every time one of Apple's highly popular smartphones gets near a European, it self-destructs in some sort of robo-kamikaze explosion. Just in the past month, we've reported on that one kid in France whose eye caught a flying shard of iPhone screen, and that other guy in England whose iPod touch burst into flames ...

The lithium-ion batteries used in laptops and cell phones possess well-known destructive capabilities. Sony, at one point, was forced to recall 7 million batteries because of incidents involving smoking and exploding gadgets, and Japan even demanded that Apple investigate exploding iPod Nanos. Earlier this month, an English man hurled his daughter's iPod touch into his backyard when it started ...

It's been quite some time since we've had a good exploding battery story. Back in 2007, it seemed like nobody was immune from the plague, with Sony being blamed for battery recalls extending to laptops from Apple, Dell, Toshiba, and a number of others. Given that was so long ago and the news was so widely publicized, we'd figured everyone would have, by now, swapped their recalled batteries for ...

We've seen no shortage of batteries exploding, whether they be in cell phones or laptops. It didn't take long for the FAA to institute bans for certain types (and quantities) of batteries for gadgets, and after an incident on a plane heading for Manchester, England, the U.K. travel administration may want to think about instituting a similar ban. The battery on an electric wheelchair was found ...

Look, it's pretty clear that the lithium-ion battery in the first generation iPod nano has the potential to burst into flames. Seriously, how many more cases do we have to see? Even after giving Apple a stern talking-to and ferocious wag of the finger back in March, Japan's government is once again investigating possible battery defects that caused a pair of Tokyo nanos to burn: nano model MA099 ...